what you looking at?
what you looking at?,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
First in a series from around kelvin street.
Technorati tag: moblog
Monthly archives: September 2005
what you looking at?,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
First in a series from around kelvin street.
Technorati tag: moblog
The air that I breathe
All things being equal I should be back on my bike and commuting next week. I’ll be faster and fitter, but how will my lungs be? Another cyclist has the same question for Umbra at Grist Magazine, and the answer is reassuring.
via Treehugger
Phat
I really, really want an Easy Rider style bike. Maybe I could make my own carbon fibre one.
via Treehugger and Tim
Taste makers
The people who influence what music we hear and buy,even if they’re not always doing it conciously.
Technorati tag: Music
Selling Sellafield
The government is planning to sell off British Nuclear Group, the main operating arm of BNFL, which handles nuclear generation, reprocessing and clean-up businesses. The most worrying aspect of this sale is some of the bidders- Halliburton and Fluor have only one reputation these days, that of incompetent, thieving Bush cronies. I don’t want to see them in charge of anything in this country, let alone anything nuclear.
Technorati tag: Nuclear, Halliburton
fittings
fittings,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Same shop as all the dummies, different window. There’s something sad about a window full of empty stands and racks, even if you know that’s what’s being sold.
Technorati tag: moblog
Manchester Bobber
It’s not anything rude, but a design for a wave power station from Manchester University. The design uses the rise and fall of the water’s surface to transmit energy and then generate electricity. They could be mounted on old oil platforms initially to cut roll out costs.
via Worldchanging
Technorati tag: Wave Power
Red Hot Riding Hood
The Tex Avery classic is available on Google video
via Screenhead
If you drive your car then the hurricanes have won
Something you thought you’d never hear- George Bush telling Americans to drive less. Shame it’s only because Katrina and Rita have cut oil production and the Republicans still insist on pushing through tax breaks for oil companies.
“I mean, people just need to recognise that these storms have caused disruption and that if they’re able to maybe not drive … on a trip that’s not essential, that would be helpful.
“If it makes sense for the citizen out there to curtail non-essential travel, it darn sure makes sense for federal employees … We can encourage employees to car pool or use mass transit, and we can shift peak electricity use to off-peak hours. There’s ways for the federal government to lead when it comes to conservation,”
You can probably dog for profit, but no thanks
More people in the UK know about dogging than blogging. Actually, that gives me an idea. I wonder if there’s a dogging blog……
Research conducted among taxi drivers, hairdressers and pub landlords – backed up by conventional market research – has found that seven out of 10 people don’t know what a blog is. Nine out of 10 don’t know what podcasting or flashmobbing are.
Four out of 10 know what dogging is, perhaps due to the activities of certain celebrities. Only 49% of people know what a chav is, despite the widespread coverage they have received in both tabloid and broadsheet papers.
Nearly nine out of 10 people now know what broadband is, however.
Going all Nemo
Japanese scientists have released the first ever pictures of a live giant squid. It didn’t attack their submarine, but did lose a tentacle after being caught on a baited hook.
via BoingBoing
Technorati tag: Squid
Wonderfest
A gallery of models from Wonderfest 2004 showcasing sci fi subjects.
via BoingBoing
Technorati tag: Scale Models, Sci fi
Robot Crusoe
A robotic treasure hunter has found the haul of the century on Robinson Crusoe Island- named for the book that was inspired by the story of a sailor stranded there.
According to legend, a fabulous treasure haul was buried on the island in 1715 by Spanish sailor Juan Esteban Ubilla-Echeverria. The bounty is said to have been discovered a few years later by British sailor Cornelius Webb, who reburied it on another part of the island.
By some estimates the haul would include 800 barrels of gold ingots, silver pieces, gems and other riches worth up to $10 billion.
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originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
This, and whatever it is it doesn’t look good, is probably the reason for the traffic jam. The police have blocked the road, so i don’t feel good about it.
Technorati tag: moblog
on the buses
It might just be tuesdays. Every other day seems okay, but tuesdays are hellish on the way home.
I’ve been sat on this bus for ten minutes and it’s moved about twenty feet.
Must get back on the bike. Must get back on the bike.
windswept pickets
windswept pickets,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
Why’s it called industrial action when the aim is to stop things?
The coop is being picketed by financial advisers aggrieved at their latest pay offer. It’s kind of cool that all the pickets are in suits.
Update The Evening News reports on the strike.
Technorati tag: moblog
sticker-rama
sticker-rama,
originally uploaded by spinneyhead.
There’s a door on oldham street that seems to collect these things. This is just a sample.
Technorati tag: moblog
Annual weather forecasts
Draft legislation would require the Prime Minister to give annual updateson the UK’s progress in cutting greenhouse gases.
Last week, a report from academics at Sussex and Southampton Universities and Imperial College London said that micro-renewables hold great promise, but were fighting on an uneven playing field.
“Our research shows that some basic changes in regulations could make a significant difference,” said study leader Dr Jim Watson from Sussex University.
“This is a classic ‘chicken and egg’ problem that needs some government intervention and up-front investment to achieve a breakthrough.”
Technorati tag: Greenhouse gases, Global Warming
Don Quixote
The European Space Agency is going to try to deflect an asteroid. Two vehicles will be used, one to ram into the asteroid and the other to record the event.
Cue shoddy disaster movie where the asteroid ends up on a collision course with Earth…..
via Slashdot
Sun Trap
The Sun Trap solar handbag charges onboard batteries that then light up the electroluminescent material inside so keys that have sunk to the bottom can be found more easily.